WEBVTT 00:00:00.210 --> 00:00:04.420 - You wanna build your own DIY computer and you find yourself on newegg.com, 00:00:04.420 --> 00:00:09.970 who sponsored this video, by the way. Overwhelmed by all the choices and all the acronyms. 00:00:09.970 --> 00:00:14.560 You got your NVMEs, you got your LGAs, your PCIs. 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:18.580 What does it all even mean? Do you painstakingly research? 00:00:18.580 --> 00:00:22.210 Which parts are the best? No my friends, not today. 00:00:22.210 --> 00:00:26.210 Today you let the fates decide. 00:00:26.210 --> 00:00:29.530 Or more accurately the sort by Best Rating feature. 00:00:29.530 --> 00:00:36.430 Yes my friends, for today's machine, we are gonna be flying absolutely blindfolded, 00:00:36.430 --> 00:00:40.090 simply ordering whatever it is on newegg.com 00:00:40.090 --> 00:00:45.720 that has the highest egg rating, throwing it all together and seeing 00:00:45.720 --> 00:00:53.240 what kind of computer we end up with. And I can tell you some of the choices are probably not ones 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.333 that I would have defaulted to. 00:00:56.449 --> 00:00:59.032 (upbeat music) 00:01:05.630 --> 00:01:09.460 First up, we've got the Ryzen 7 3700 X from AMD. 00:01:09.460 --> 00:01:14.000 It's an eight core, 16 thread processor, and its just $300. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.200 This puppy is a multitasking powerhouse 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.240 able to plow through the latest games and your renders 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:24.550 or animations or whatever else it is that you like to do 00:01:24.550 --> 00:01:30.370 on the side. It has five out of five eggs with 3,300 reviews on Newegg 00:01:32.870 --> 00:01:38.250 with some of the highlights being good performance and the stock cooler is good. 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:41.970 And if this chip doesn't convince you to dump Intel, 00:01:41.970 --> 00:01:45.850 you must be dead. What does that even mean? 00:01:45.850 --> 00:01:50.310 We won't actually be using the stock cooler though. So let's focus on the bottom line here. 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:55.586 Pros: just what I wanted, even more. Cons: Just too much power. 00:01:55.586 --> 00:01:59.260 Overall review: Perfect product. 00:01:59.260 --> 00:02:03.640 All right. Fair enough. We'll have to see what Ryzen 5000 has to say about 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:08.270 the perfect Ryzen 3000. On that subject one of the best things 00:02:08.270 --> 00:02:13.734 about AMD's platform right now is the forward and backwards compatibility 00:02:13.734 --> 00:02:20.740 of their chip sets. So this motherboard right here, the MSI Meg X570 ACE, 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:27.240 not only has features that are useful today, like 2.5 Gig Ethernet and Wi-Fi 6 as well as solid VRMs 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.560 for overclocking but the capability to upgrade it 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.180 with a Ryzen 5000 series CPU down the line. 00:02:34.180 --> 00:02:37.840 Now motherboards tend to be a little bit more 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.590 on the finicky side than CPUs. So our highest rated motherboard was actually 00:02:42.590 --> 00:02:47.090 just four eggs out of five with 176 reviews. 00:02:47.090 --> 00:02:52.020 In spite of the fact that this is a $360 board. 00:02:52.020 --> 00:02:55.843 Let's go ahead and throw our CPU in there. A little something like that. 00:02:59.370 --> 00:03:02.520 That's customer satisfaction right there. That's what it looks like. 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:06.230 The herd mentality PC is going really well here so far. 00:03:06.230 --> 00:03:10.250 For memory we ended up with a 16 Gig kit of 3200 MHZ, 00:03:10.250 --> 00:03:14.870 CL 16 RGB memory from none other than G skill. 00:03:14.870 --> 00:03:18.130 The general consensus here with four out of five eggs 00:03:18.130 --> 00:03:22.500 and 2,494 reviews 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:27.180 was that the pros are that they are highly compatible with most boards out there. 00:03:27.180 --> 00:03:33.250 And one of the few 3,200 MHZ kits that happens to be on the QBL or the Qualified Vendor List 00:03:33.250 --> 00:03:40.850 for lots of boards with the cons being that it has ignored my advances, will not make me a sandwich 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:45.090 and does not run hot enough to warm my coffee. 00:03:45.090 --> 00:03:49.510 Those are some pretty small downsides. 00:03:49.510 --> 00:03:54.650 The highlighted overall review was, has run continuously and flawlessly in my system 00:03:54.650 --> 00:03:58.710 for about half a year now. And also the RGB works and looks great. 00:03:58.710 --> 00:04:03.740 Here's what I didn't see coming. When I think boot SSD, maybe I bought into the hype. 00:04:03.740 --> 00:04:07.980 I tend to think more like, you know, the guys that market cutting edge features 00:04:07.980 --> 00:04:14.110 like PCI express gen four, like Corsair or the guys that focus almost exclusively on SSDs, 00:04:15.100 --> 00:04:22.200 like a Samsung or a micron, but Intel actually came out on top with their 660P. 00:04:23.300 --> 00:04:29.460 This right here is a 1TB drive that boasts 1800MHZ per second reads and writes 00:04:29.460 --> 00:04:35.470 with QLC NAND. So not exactly a top performer, but at 130 bucks, 00:04:35.470 --> 00:04:39.550 it's reasonably priced for a terabyte of reasonably fast storage 00:04:39.550 --> 00:04:44.540 and it's got five eggs out of five with almost 900 reviews. 00:04:44.540 --> 00:04:50.020 Advantages for this product include things like, fast, reliable, and easy to install. 00:04:50.020 --> 00:04:54.690 While one of the biggest complaints about it was that the user no longer had enough time 00:04:54.690 --> 00:04:59.560 to go get a glass of water while their system booted leading to dehydration. 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.670 So it could be dangerous to use one of these SSDs, 00:05:02.670 --> 00:05:05.820 but your computer will run just fine. 00:05:05.820 --> 00:05:10.183 Maybe the cooler I'll end up being something I don't agree with, I'm just kidding. 00:05:11.150 --> 00:05:14.210 The community knows not Noctua knows what's up. 00:05:14.210 --> 00:05:17.820 So highlights of the NH-U12S are just that it is, 00:05:17.820 --> 00:05:22.260 a no-nonsense cooler that gets the job done. It has good enough performance 00:05:22.260 --> 00:05:25.300 while being absolutely silent. 00:05:25.300 --> 00:05:28.440 If you can figure your BIOS to a silent mode. 00:05:28.440 --> 00:05:31.630 And of course it comes with not to as legendary 00:05:31.630 --> 00:05:37.600 Sekou firm mounting system, which I am personally a big old fan of. 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:41.230 While we work on updating the compatibility of this older unit of this cooler, 00:05:41.230 --> 00:05:45.550 seems like a good time to talk about one of the patterns that I've noticed emerging 00:05:45.550 --> 00:05:50.660 in the hardware choices that we've looked at today. The SSD had a five-year warranty, 00:05:50.660 --> 00:05:55.100 the cooler has a six-year warranty and Noctua has an outstanding reputation 00:05:55.100 --> 00:05:58.500 for providing a mounting brackets and adapters 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:05.020 that customers need down the line for their products. And this Seasonic Power Supply has a 10-year warranty. 00:06:05.020 --> 00:06:09.160 It seems like, by large, the herd mentality computer 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:13.280 is considering things that a hardware reviewer might not normally, 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:18.943 like the long-term support that comes with the product, as opposed to just the price to performance ratio. 00:06:19.900 --> 00:06:25.810 For the finishing touch, we throw on our fan and plugged the fan cable into the CPU fan header 00:06:27.400 --> 00:06:31.460 right there on the motherboard. Back over to the Power Supply. 00:06:31.460 --> 00:06:36.370 We didn't strictly speaking need a 750 Watt Power Supply, 00:06:36.370 --> 00:06:40.800 but I also don't disagree with the Newegg Community's choice here. 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.170 This is the Seasonic focused GX-750. 00:06:44.170 --> 00:06:47.930 It's got 80 plus gold certification, it's fully modular, 00:06:47.930 --> 00:06:54.150 it's quiet and even includes a hybrid mode, where the fan will turn off entirely under very light loads, 00:06:54.150 --> 00:06:58.640 and it's going to have a little bit of growing room for you in the future. 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:03.340 The main pros were, Hey, well, I didn't need a 750 Watt Power Supply, 00:07:03.340 --> 00:07:07.520 but it was the same price as the 650, so why not? 00:07:07.520 --> 00:07:11.350 With one of the main cons being, an out-of-date user manual? 00:07:11.350 --> 00:07:16.870 Oh, we should have a look at that. That tells me not to use it in the bathtub in 20 languages, 00:07:16.870 --> 00:07:19.950 but not how the fan control button works. Oh, Lordy. Okay. 00:07:19.950 --> 00:07:23.850 Well, Oh yeah, no, it doesn't say which toggle is right. 00:07:23.850 --> 00:07:26.890 I think out is actually hybrid mode, which is weird. 00:07:26.890 --> 00:07:31.493 Don't quote me on that though. A separate manual for that now. Yes, yes, yes. 00:07:31.493 --> 00:07:35.110 Out an Audi belly button is hybrid build. 00:07:35.110 --> 00:07:38.950 Bringing us finally to probably the funkiest choice 00:07:38.950 --> 00:07:46.640 in our viewers choice PC here. This is the Cooler Master HAF XB Evo 00:07:46.830 --> 00:07:51.460 and it's advertised as like a land box 00:07:51.460 --> 00:07:55.890 slash I think they also say it's like good as a test bench or something. 00:07:55.890 --> 00:07:59.150 Do they actually say that? Or is that your thing? - [Nicholas] That in the marketing. 00:07:59.150 --> 00:08:02.630 - It's in the marketing for it. Huh? Okay. 00:08:02.630 --> 00:08:05.770 What's funny about this is that even though I don't recall 00:08:05.770 --> 00:08:10.890 ever having seen one of these out in the wild, like at a land party or anything, 00:08:10.890 --> 00:08:15.890 it has a five out of five egg rating with get this, 00:08:16.020 --> 00:08:21.020 8,562 reviews as of the time of recording this video. 00:08:21.670 --> 00:08:25.650 I mean, that is shocking. The main pros for this guy 00:08:25.650 --> 00:08:31.010 or that it is surprisingly spacious with a well thought out design in most regards. 00:08:31.010 --> 00:08:35.410 And that really is all you can ask for a case, Isn't it? Six thumbs screws at the back, 00:08:35.410 --> 00:08:40.520 give us pretty much all the access that we need to the inside of the chassis for building. 00:08:40.520 --> 00:08:43.650 And I can actually see how this would appeal to people 00:08:43.650 --> 00:08:49.100 even though I haven't set eyes on this thing in years and years. 00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:52.110 And that was probably a previous revision of the case. 00:08:52.110 --> 00:08:56.963 All the accessories are included in this little hard drive shaped-cardboard box. 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:05.800 And natively has support for up to four hard drives with two of them being hot swaps 00:09:05.800 --> 00:09:09.970 really is pretty easy to work in. Get our front panel cables out of the way 00:09:09.970 --> 00:09:13.470 and plug in front USB three. You know what's another interesting trend 00:09:13.470 --> 00:09:18.470 is the fact that RGB lighting seems to be a complete non-factor when it comes 00:09:18.470 --> 00:09:23.630 to people's purchase satisfaction, all of the three items that do have any RGB lighting, 00:09:23.630 --> 00:09:28.760 only the RAM is available in an identical, but non RGB configuration. 00:09:28.760 --> 00:09:33.910 So it seems like for the most part, people are just picking whatever is great bang for the buck 00:09:33.910 --> 00:09:38.310 with a complete indifference towards whether it has RGB or not. 00:09:38.310 --> 00:09:41.790 Even the RAM. I wouldn't read too much into it because a lot of the time 00:09:41.790 --> 00:09:45.260 what memory people buy is more down to what on promo this week 00:09:45.260 --> 00:09:48.740 as opposed to what they actually think is the best. 00:09:48.740 --> 00:09:52.550 Although there were some complaints about not two as Brown and tan color scheme. 00:09:52.550 --> 00:09:56.240 People really wanted a different though, there is a black one for $10 more. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.100 So apparently it just doesn't matter that much. You know I made a couple offhand comments before 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:05.310 about how old this case design is, but like this really dates it, 00:10:05.310 --> 00:10:09.540 it still has one of those AC97 offshoot dongle things 00:10:09.540 --> 00:10:13.690 on the front panel, audio connection. Who's putting a motherboard old enough 00:10:13.690 --> 00:10:17.750 with the cooler master, revise your is here. Hooking up the front panel connectors now, 00:10:17.750 --> 00:10:21.430 this is not my best cable and management, but whatever, 00:10:21.430 --> 00:10:24.440 whoever wins this thing can fix it for me. 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.360 Oh yeah, I don't think I actually mentioned that part of the Newegg sponsorship for this video 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.463 is that we going to be giving away this computer. Fun, right? 00:10:31.463 --> 00:10:34.470 That's one of the nicest things about modular Power Supply cables 00:10:34.470 --> 00:10:38.750 is you can kind of run them whenever and whichever direction you want. 00:10:38.750 --> 00:10:41.950 So I'm running them over to the motherboard first 00:10:41.950 --> 00:10:46.730 then I will plug in the Power Supply end once I put the PSU in down here. 00:10:46.730 --> 00:10:51.830 Got a couple of eight pins. Man, this is easy to get at compared to a typical tower case 00:10:51.830 --> 00:10:54.850 where all the cable management room is kind of like 00:10:54.850 --> 00:10:57.940 behind the motherboard tray in this tiny little channel. 00:10:57.940 --> 00:11:02.300 We are gonna have a hard drive so I'm gonna go ahead and grab a SATA cable here 00:11:02.300 --> 00:11:03.600 and then do what the, Hey, 00:11:05.368 --> 00:11:11.460 why don't we throw it in the old hot swap thing? So that's Oh, that's kind of a kludgy approach to that. 00:11:11.460 --> 00:11:18.850 They've just got this female connector, like soldered on to an exposed PCB there. 00:11:18.850 --> 00:11:23.700 Okay. The most amazing part is how much of a difference all these little conveniences make 00:11:23.700 --> 00:11:29.170 to how long it takes to complete a build. Like here we are, we are almost done ladies and gentlemen. 00:11:29.170 --> 00:11:35.790 We are wiring up the Power Supply. We're going to screw it back in, throw the graphics card in and we're close. 00:11:35.790 --> 00:11:38.857 We settled on the Western Digital 4TB, WD 405SZBX, 00:11:41.550 --> 00:11:46.160 because it's got four out of five eggs and 1500 reviews 00:11:46.160 --> 00:11:51.180 and 150 bucks is not a lot of money for a whack ton of storage space. 00:11:51.180 --> 00:11:56.950 It's super easy to install with tool less Mount. You just got to line up the thing in Boober 00:11:56.950 --> 00:12:00.637 and then you put the pokies and the Holies there 00:12:00.637 --> 00:12:03.890 and just kind of do like that kind of thing 00:12:03.890 --> 00:12:07.040 until it's kind of in there, like it should be 00:12:07.040 --> 00:12:11.233 and then you take the whole sled, slide it in there. 00:12:12.550 --> 00:12:17.030 Oh, Oh, it's falling apart. Can you go in there? 00:12:17.030 --> 00:12:21.570 What the, Oh, stop. Why are these getting caught? 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:27.113 They're not even sticking out. Oh, it's under the drive now just go in. 00:12:28.630 --> 00:12:31.363 It's caught again. What the heck is it caught on? 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:38.420 Okay, well it's there now. This is a perfect example 00:12:38.420 --> 00:12:41.490 of how going by whatever has the best, 00:12:41.490 --> 00:12:45.660 and or the most reviews can be a great strategy, 00:12:45.660 --> 00:12:50.360 but it can also mean that you're stuck with sorta out of date information, 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.720 because the thing about the RTX 2000 series is awkward. 00:12:55.610 --> 00:13:02.720 It's kind of been replaced at this point, but because the RTX 3000 series is so supply constrained, 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.320 well, nobody has them to leave a bunch of positive reviews about it. 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:15.100 So it's not like we're getting a bad product here in the form of the RTX 2070 super twin frozen Gaming X 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.510 from MSI. It's just that we're not getting the most current one. 00:13:20.510 --> 00:13:24.340 Removed before gaming, zero froze or fan not spinning, 00:13:24.340 --> 00:13:27.600 don't worry this card runs in silent mode, 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:31.580 under low load situations. Nice. That's fun. 00:13:31.580 --> 00:13:36.580 One of the cons of this card is that it is big, real big, 00:13:36.680 --> 00:13:42.680 but one of the pros is that MSI actually went out of their way to include a support bracket with it. 00:13:42.680 --> 00:13:49.000 How fun is that? Got a whole like bracket experience to help with that sag. 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:54.140 Nothing against them assign Nicholas, but I'm a little curious as to how exactly we got 00:13:54.140 --> 00:13:57.670 so many of their products. What did you use as a tie breaker 00:13:57.670 --> 00:14:00.740 if you had two five-eggs products? 00:14:00.740 --> 00:14:07.170 - [Nicholas] Basically the number of reviews. - Got it. So we took whatever was the bigger seller 00:14:07.170 --> 00:14:12.890 and said, okay, well this is a greater sample size. So it's more statistically significant. 00:14:12.890 --> 00:14:17.430 I have never installed a graphics card with a support bracket like that before 00:14:17.430 --> 00:14:23.860 and it's totally unnecessary in this chassis because the graphics card actually just sits like this. 00:14:23.860 --> 00:14:27.700 There is no sag, but I kind of want to do it anyway. 00:14:27.700 --> 00:14:31.880 So we're gonna do it. Come on, sometimes you just got to do stuff for fun, 00:14:31.880 --> 00:14:35.490 you know? - [Girl] Hey daddy. - Yes. My darling girl. 00:14:35.490 --> 00:14:39.210 - [Girl] Can I have Apples please? - You would like apples. 00:14:39.210 --> 00:14:41.493 Well, we're more of a PC house. 00:14:42.456 --> 00:14:47.000 - [Girl] What are you playing? - What am I playing? I'm not playing anything my love 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:51.470 I'm building a computer. - [Girl] Can I help please? 00:14:51.470 --> 00:14:55.210 - Actually. Yes. you can help if you'd like, would you like to help? 00:14:55.210 --> 00:14:56.510 - Yes. - Okay, come here. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:04.030 Fun. This is something I didn't actually notice before. These handles are super handy 00:15:04.030 --> 00:15:08.570 if you want to move the system around, all right, go ahead. One there and one there, my darling, 00:15:09.933 --> 00:15:14.150 (instrumental music) This might take a while. 00:15:14.150 --> 00:15:17.070 Let's go get our peripherals so we can fire up some games on here. 00:15:19.030 --> 00:15:25.220 It posted immediately. Let's go ahead and try XMP and it's only 3800MHZ. 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:29.990 It should be okay. Don't read too much into the monitor or peripherals. 00:15:29.990 --> 00:15:35.270 These were just things you grabbed from the office, not the top rated ones or anything like that. 00:15:35.270 --> 00:15:40.650 Now this game is violent, you can't watch this Tylan. All right, We're running some dual maternal at 1080P 00:15:40.650 --> 00:15:43.930 at what? Just shy of 300 FPS, 00:15:43.930 --> 00:15:48.040 which actually makes more sense than you might think with this 360 Hertz monitor. 00:15:48.040 --> 00:15:52.470 Nice and clean obviously coz it's like little butter smooth. 00:15:52.470 --> 00:15:57.160 I mean, that doesn't change that I missed a lot of the shots I take, but minor details. 00:15:57.160 --> 00:16:01.520 Right, right, right, right. See you later. Oh, I'm gonna die. 00:16:01.520 --> 00:16:05.010 Oh, I died. That's okay. The main point was, does the system work? 00:16:05.010 --> 00:16:10.010 Yes it does and does the review system work? 00:16:10.750 --> 00:16:13.820 Actually it kind of seems like it does 00:16:13.820 --> 00:16:19.370 without any knowledge of parts, other than making sure that our CPU and motherboard 00:16:19.370 --> 00:16:23.320 were compatible. All we had to do is take the top reviewed products 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.760 and we ended up with what is not only a very competent gaming rig, 00:16:27.760 --> 00:16:32.760 but even one with great cooling and silent operation, 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:38.430 and it's a pretty great value. And the best part is, thanks to Newegg sponsorship. 00:16:38.430 --> 00:16:43.280 You don't even have to pay for it at all if you win it. We're back at the office and guess what? 00:16:43.280 --> 00:16:47.730 Instead of the last gen RTX 2000 series card, 00:16:47.730 --> 00:16:51.740 Newegg asked us to upgrade our system with a new EVGA 3080X3 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:57.130 that they sent over. I think Newegg must be going for a five-egg rating here, 00:16:57.130 --> 00:17:02.680 because check this out. They also sent another card and EVGA 3090 FTW3 00:17:04.290 --> 00:17:06.423 for us to give away. 00:17:07.560 --> 00:17:12.910 No, not for you. So enter below for a chance to win this PC with a 3080, 00:17:12.910 --> 00:17:16.240 or a 3090 FTW3 and afterwards, 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:21.060 go check out Newegg's PC Builder which helps you choose compatible parts for your next build 00:17:21.060 --> 00:17:24.720 and upload your builds to Newegg showcase to show them off. 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.320 It's that time of year guys Newegg is having Black Friday deals all month long, 00:17:28.320 --> 00:17:33.370 including a Black Friday price protection program from November 1st to November 22nd. 00:17:33.370 --> 00:17:36.690 So you can find links to all of this in the video description. 00:17:36.690 --> 00:17:42.130 If you guys enjoyed this video and you weren't lucky enough to win this, maybe check out the ruthless economy build, 00:17:42.130 --> 00:17:44.873 cause you don't have to spend this much to get a, 00:17:45.710 --> 00:17:49.170 well functional gaming MIG, gaming MIG? 00:17:49.170 --> 00:17:52.490 Gaming, PC gaming machine rig. 00:17:52.490 --> 00:17:54.387 Whatever just close the video.